Johann Sokopp

Johann Sokopp (born May 6, 1913 in Vienna ; died May 24, 1944 there ) was an Austrian customs officer and resistance fighter against National Socialism . He was sentenced to death by the Nazi judiciary and executed in the Vienna Regional Court .

Life

Sokopp was the son of a railroad worker and grew up in poor conditions. After compulsory school he worked as an unskilled worker. As a teenager he found connection to the communist movement. After a long period of unemployment, he became a professional soldier in the Austrian army in 1934 .

In 1939 he was dismissed from the army, which had meanwhile been integrated into the German Wehrmacht , and was then employed as a customs officer in eastern Galicia . From 1940 he became involved in the communist resistance, in 1941 he took a vacation to distribute donations to relatives of executed resistance fighters as part of the relief organization Rote Hilfe Österreichs . Together with Käthe Sasso , he printed illegal leaflets and also came into contact with leading functionaries of the Communist Party of Austria . During a conspiratorial meeting with the Central Committee members Adolf Neustadtl and Anton Gajda in the summer of 1942, Sokopp was arrested by the Vienna Gestapo and then interrogated. He was accused of “preparing for high treason ”, sentenced to death by the People's Court in March 1944 and executed by guillotine in May 1944 .

His body is buried in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery .

Commemoration

Two memorial plaques remember Johann Sokopp:

• A memorial plaque on the municipal housing complex Hasengasse 35–37 from 1952 commemorates the resistance fighters Franz Kalis , Karl Kriwanek and Johann Sokopp. It bears the inscription: "Honor the dead, the living a warning and obligation".
• His name can also be found on the plaque in the former execution room of the Vienna Regional Court .
• A photo of Johann Sokopp can be found using the person search of the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon , About Johann Sokopp, accessed on June 15, 2015
2. ↑ Keyword onion set  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 15, 2015  
3. ^ Concentration camp association , illustration of the memorial plaque for Kalis, Krivanek and Sokopp, accessed on June 15, 2015
4. ^ Postwar Justice , accessed May 15, 2015